Social & Cultural History

The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of...

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, pre...

This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a div...

As the fragile window of personal witness to the events of the Holocaust closes, Moment of Witness provides the script for a powerful commemoration...

Thailand is exceptional among modern states in Asia in that it has built and retained a national culture around a traditional monarchical instituti...

Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...

This volume is a local history, focusing on the experiences of people andcommunities as they navigated and enacted institutions and transformations...

Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its ...

In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless loca...

Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the grea...

The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets are being ...

First published in 1962, this book examines Germanys Free Youth Movement, a revolt of the younger generation in Germany from 1896 to 1933. This mov...

Contributing to existing literature on ethnic studies in China, this book is a study of minority subjective experiences in China, using Uyghur Musl...

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of...

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixt...

Global Medieval Contexts 5001500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designe...

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule sh...

Pavel Nazaroff travels from Kashgar, through the Kuen Lun and Karakoram mountains and on to Srinagar, Kashmir in the early 1930s, and describes the...

In the 21st century, China has become impossible to ignore. At the same time, a vast array of perceptions and judgments of Chinas actions and futur...

The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of childhood in t...

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash...

Looking closely at both case histories of shell shock and Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Wyatt Bonikowski s...

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American new woman, Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, wome...

The modern world is characterised by pervasive economic inequalities. Strong economic growth in some developing countries has contributed to a degr...

How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history?To...

Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany surveys the production and marketing of non-monastic manuscripts and prin...

Arguments about whether distinctive features of American society, culture, political structure, economic system, or population account for the rela...

John Armstrong's 2000-line poem The Art of Preserving Health was among the most popular works of eighteenth-century literature and medicine. It was...

The Olympics: A Critical Reader represents a unique, critical guide to the definitive sporting mega-event and the wider phenomenon it represents O...

This book brings together literary critics, political historians, historians of literature, cinema and theatre and cultural sociologists, to elucid...

This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a r...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

Consumption of alcohol is a globally ubiquitous, often controversial activity, and business organizations in this sector are of significant social ...

Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques bot...

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spiri...

The book examines the birth, development, and mode of operation of the Hebrew popular press that progressed in Ottoman Palestine between 1884 and t...

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially...

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Daviess book plots the formation of a written paradigm of matern...

Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England traces the broad pattern of criminal offending over a hundred year period that experienced unpreced...

The now-forgotten genre of the bellum grammaticale flourished in the sixteenth- and seventeenth centuries as a means of satirizing outmoded cultura...

This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long ninetee...

This collection captures key themes and issues in the broad history of addiction and vice in the Anglo-American world. Focusing on the long ninetee...